Many people extol the benefits of forgetting the past, however I disagree with that line of thinking...It's the past that brought me to the present and so why forget it; There's many lessons to be learned from the past that may improve, or at least bring the opportunity to improve, the present...So, for me the past is a legit part of my life. Having said that, I had a shit week at work and so am happy to forget not remember it. 😂
Saturday began early for me as I ended up getting an early night Friday as expressed in my last post. I was sleeping tossing and turning by 11pm and so at 6am I was out and about eating breakfast and preparing equipment for a morning at the range.
Today I was shooting a club match called steel action where four chest sized steel plates are arrayed two to the left and two to the right of the shooting position with a fourth head-sized plate used as the stop plate.
The idea is that from holstered the shooter engages each plate once in the fastest possible time. This is a timed match and when the stop plate is hit the clock stops leaving one with an elapsed time. The clock is Bluetooth-connected to the handheld shot-timer the range officer activates to start the stage. The shot-timer registers the sound from the shot and stores them in the device.
There is five strings, so the minimum rounds is twenty five to complete that stage. A second stage is then set up with a different configuration and is also run in the same way, another twenty five rounds.
It's a spray-and-pray style of shooting as speed is the key, rather than precision; As long as the plate it hit it doesn't matter where. I think my fastest time was around 3.69 seconds from holstered to five rounds and hits complete, so not lightening-fast, but fast enough. I'll finish somewhere around the middle of the top third of competitors I guess, in the top ten somewhere I suppose, although it's all about the fun for me, and hanging around with my bros and bro-ette's, talking some shit and relaxing. There's more serious IPSC shoot next weekend and the IPSC State Titles the following weekend, so a little fun now is welcome.
Once back from the range around lunch time this is what my handgun should have looked like..That's right, broken down and being cleaned...It didn't though. I'll clean it some other time; Just can't be bothered right now to be honest...No, this doesn't speak highly of me and is shameful! 😳
I had a good time at the range today; It was a relaxing, social, sort of day and one that I needed after the difficult working week I had which I can't seem to forget not recall, for some reason.
The rest of the weekend is ahead and Faith and I have a couple things planned being a hike later today, (just a short three hours) and a coffee catch-up with another couple on Sunday afternoon. I really want to go and see the movie 1917 this weekend also but am not sure it'll happen. Hmm, maybe later tonight possibly. Maybe not.
I hope your weekend is good and that you manage to make some memories because it's those memories that add to our our lives, the threads that construct our life-tapestry. You may as well make it interesting and vibrant right?
Pew pew...I mean, good bye. 😏
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